Ca Kesmology < ExaltedPlus

⚠ dissolvegirl: So Shreyas, Roger sent me an email last night ⚠ willows: yea ⚠ dissolvegirl: Because I told him you and I were working on an alternate Ca Kesmology ⚠ dissolvegirl: It's, uh ⚠ dissolvegirl: hold on, let me go post it without comment ⚠ willows: ok ⚠ dissolvegirl: Posted ⚠ dissolvegirl: I haven't been able to really digest the whole thing, because my brain stops at "Cricket lives on the moon" ⚠ willows: roger is...rogersome ⚠ dissolvegirl: Hee ⚠ dissolvegirl: For some reason my mind automatically mapped "rogersome" to something between "awesome" and " ⚠ dissolvegirl: "worrisome" ⚠ willows: that's about right ⚠ dissolvegirl: I am kind of impressed that he was able to come up with an internally-consistant cosmology that quickly ⚠ dissolvegirl: Even though, at least for Ca Ke ?, I am not sold on moon-gods and martians ⚠ willows: heh ⚠ dissolvegirl: I was kind of thinking less anime, more.. ancient epic? ⚠ spiderpig: HIGH FIVE ⚠ willows: so i'm thinking....there are Men and Gods, right ⚠ dissolvegirl: Right ⚠ willows: and maybe Men are a little barbaric, they live in wooden houses, they're agriculturist and not very urban, they've just recently domesticated animals ⚠ willows: Gods are, well, they are gods...they spring from the earth fully-formed, and they possess endless variety of form and psychology ⚠ willows: but they live on the earth, and they have weird powers ⚠ willows: somewhere along the line they became civilised ⚠ willows: they live in cities and have technology that's a few breakthroughs ahead of Men ⚠ willows: so the thing is, some gods are manlike enough to breed with man ⚠ willows: but it's dangerous because a lot of demigods are MONSTERS physically or mentally ⚠ willows: this is why cricket is feared and hunted - she is probably dangerously insane ⚠ willows: http://unrequitedthai.livejournal.com/205210.html < yay i am smart ⚠ dissolvegirl: Because her father was a god? ⚠ willows: yeah ⚠ willows: so right now this looks like a crazy nazi fantasy ⚠ willows: maybe it's not actually TRUE that mixed children are always monsters ⚠ willows: but it's like, procedure ⚠ willows: the Big Kahuna in god-town says you have to do it ⚠ willows: or ⚠ willows: 'the gods require sacrifice' and it's just routine to sacrifice monsterbabies ⚠ dissolvegirl: That's a great dissertation on stirfry ⚠ willows: ooh. ⚠ willows: maybe it's like the unravelling world that i wrote about once, and what's up with gods is that the bureaucracy keeps them in line ⚠ dissolvegirl: The only problem I see with that is not from an interest or consistancy standpoint, but rather the fact that, psychologically and from a writery standpoint, I don't "get" barbarism ⚠ dissolvegirl: Oooh ⚠ willows: because a god is actually a representation of something that's wrong with the world ⚠ willows: so the humans have had to enlist them into this rigid structure of rules and codes to keep them in order ⚠ spiderpig: you people are far too fascinating for your own good. ⚠ willows: haha ⚠ dissolvegirl: lol! ⚠ spiderpig: i mean, here you are coming up with engaging cosmologies ⚠ spiderpig: my most recent "brilliant idea" was to change my nick to "spiderpig"

spiderpig makes weighing motions

⚠ willows: so what's bad about godsex is that it's, you know, passionate and disorderly and there aren't RULES ABOUT IT ⚠ willows: and demigod babies are embarrassing evidence of thoughtcrime ⚠ dissolvegirl: If you'll notice, I myself am not coming up with engaging cosmologies so much as strategically crapping in Shreyas' ⚠ dissolvegirl: *on ⚠ spiderpig: we need a new fire station ⚠ spiderpig: well, we need a fire station. right now we have, like, a fire shack. ⚠ willows: haha ⚠ willows: it's really fun thinking up reasons why demigods are unseemly or horrible ⚠ dissolvegirl: I like the idea of demibabies as thoughtcrime! ⚠ dissolvegirl: I would like for there to be a difference between mortals who are granted a demigod status by heaven (Kestrel), mortals born mortal who become some form of demigod (Cricket) and godsex spawn (Kamaria) ⚠ dissolvegirl: Well, Kestrel and Cricket could be the same thing but granted in different ways; it could just be that Cricket's was a rogue deification

willows nods

⚠ willows: this kind of trips my pokemon reflex ⚠ dissolvegirl: Perhaps gods could grant certain of their powers to mortals as their conduits on earth. Like, for example, there's a god of days ⚠ willows: "clearly they have tiny gods in a bottle and they use them as a power source for super magic" ⚠ dissolvegirl: Someone's somehow screwing with time so he imbues a servant with the ability to stop time

willows nods

⚠ willows: yeah, i think that works... ⚠ spiderpig: hm ⚠ spiderpig: if the gods are embodiments of things that are wrong with the world ⚠ willows: is it like an internal thing, or does the servant have some kind of ritual tool? a weird hourglass ⚠ dissolvegirl: However, now the god himself can only SLOW time, until his servant dies or he goes through the paperwork to get it removed ⚠ dissolvegirl: OOH RITUAL TOOL ⚠ spiderpig: then trapping them and using them as tools is very, very powerful ⚠ spiderpig: because, like ⚠ dissolvegirl: CRICKET'S NECKLACE IS THE RITUAL TOOL OF A LOST AND FORGOTTEN GOD ⚠ dissolvegirl: Sorry ⚠ spiderpig: you have trapped one of the things that breaks the world ⚠ willows: HELL YES ⚠ dissolvegirl: I just got really excited for a second ⚠ spiderpig: and you are using it to do things ⚠ spiderpig: maybe mortals become demigods by trapping a god ⚠ willows: ooh, and stealing ALL THEIR POWER? ⚠ willows: that's so evil ⚠ spiderpig: well like ⚠ spiderpig: you can trap a god ⚠ spiderpig: inside, say, a sword ⚠ spiderpig: and you have just made excalibur ⚠ willows: aha ⚠ dissolvegirl: But since you are mortal, you cannot hold all of the power, so like, some of it is constantly leaking out ⚠ spiderpig: but the god is actually more or less okay with this because he still has identity ⚠ spiderpig: but if you trap the god in YOU, you devour its identity ⚠ dissolvegirl: Maybe there is a 50-50 shot! ⚠ spiderpig: and then that thing dg said ⚠ spiderpig: oooh! ⚠ willows: so when you have trapped a god in a thing - in yourself or in a tool - its radiance kind of leaks out, and this is what makes the thing awesome or bad ⚠ dissolvegirl: If you trap the god inside you, there's a 50 50 chance it will devour YOUR identity ⚠ willows: woo ⚠ willows: that's exciting as hell ⚠ spiderpig: i think the gods are less grumpy about being put in tools ⚠ dissolvegirl: Here's an idea, tell me if this is stupid ⚠ willows: sure, 'cause they don't have to share headspace with...you ⚠ spiderpig: this would be a cool cosmology for some bizarre bronze age fantasy ⚠ dissolvegirl: So okay ⚠ spiderpig: like heroes when the world was still soft ⚠ dissolvegirl: There's this god who is going mad, a very powerful and primal old god, whose high priestesses are all from the same family ⚠ dissolvegirl: He commands his highest priestess to contain his essence in this necklace; he wants to be imprisoned for a future purpose. Most of the priests of this god think the high priestess did it to be cruel, because she was greedy; outside the cult, people thought she did it to protect the world from its madness ⚠ spiderpig: dammit elizabeth. now i'm late for class. ⚠ dissolvegirl: But after the imprisoning the cult disbanded and the story of what happened became a faint legend, with details obscured ⚠ dissolvegirl: The priestess with the necklace ended up not telling her child what the necklace was, and etc. ⚠ willows: i like ⚠ willows: secrets are always good ⚠ dissolvegirl: Some other god discovered the true nature of Cricket's necklace and imbued her with part of his power, in the hopes to somehow aquiring the necklace for himself ⚠ dissolvegirl: I guess it would involve a lot of explaining as to how said god found out, and then of course the other gods would find out ⚠ dissolvegirl: Cricket could be a servant of heaven in the detective sense-- his job would be not just to get the necklace, but discover who Cricket's patron was?

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